Dozens and dozens of times I have read the verse I am going to share with you. I have preached it. I have taught it. I have shared it with others. Then the time came that I learned the depths of just how profound this verse really is. Here’s the verse for today.

“What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee” (Psalm 56:3).

My wife Karen and I were greatly blessed of the Lord in many ways. Together we celebrated many wonderful blessings in our marriage, home, and ministries. To be very honest, there were also times of trials and hardships in the miscarriages and deaths of our sons Jeffrey and Billy as well as the grief of rejection by several of the children we wanted to adopt. But we faced all these times of sorrow and grief together with the Lord.

Then the day came when cancer was discovered in my wife who had been healthy, very healthy, all these years. It was treatable but not curable. It had already spread to multiple places in her body. She faced this with quiet confidence in the Lord and trust for His plan.

She was hospitalized. My children were wonderfully supportive. But that night I returned to my very empty house. I walked from room to room, and it seemed like a ton of emotions struck me. It was then that I knew Psalm 56:3 was going to be good for me.

I am sure that there will be times that you are going to be afraid, maybe even very afraid. But it is in those times that we deliberately, intentionally trust the Lord and lean heavily upon Him. His grace really is sufficient. He will never leave us or forsake us. He cares deeply about us. He helps us in ways that we otherwise would never experience.

How about you? Are you in a frightening situation? Trust is a deliberate choice of placing your confidence in Him. On the best of days and the worst of days, trust Him.